WOODVILLE (AP) – A state trooper says she’s baffled by the behavior of a Lincoln man who displayed amorous intentions as she was taking him into custody for getting into a car accident and failing three roadside sobriety tests.

“What did he think I was going to do? Go out on a date with him?” said Trooper Jennifer Fiske, who arrested Peter Bradley Murray early Sunday morning on Route 116.

Murray, 42, began behaving inappropriately while seated beside Fiske in the front passenger seat of her cruiser, which has no cage separating front and back seats.

“Then he said, You have beautiful green eyes,’ and he started touching my arm,” Fiske said. “I’d had enough of that.”

Fiske got out of the car and went around to the passenger seat to handcuff Murray, she said. She said she had one of his hands cuffed and was working to apply the other handcuff when he tried to wrestle it from her and cuff her to him, saying, “I just want us to be tied together.”

Fiske responded by giving a sudden short twist to the handcuff on his wrist and rapping him on the thigh with her police baton. He yelped with pain and cursed, then sat on the seat as Fiske cuffed his hands together in front of him, she said.

Murray was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence, assault on a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest, and refusing to sign or give a name.

When she arrived at the accident scene, Fiske found Murray’s car several feet off the road in a field. Murray had a mark just below his right eye where she assumed he had hit the steering wheel during the accident, she said, and he also had urinated on himself.

Murray was friendly and cooperative during the sobriety tests, Fiske said, and it wasn’t until he was in the cruiser that he refused to take a written intoxication test and started making sexual comments.

“He may have thought it was funny when he was doing it, but there was a serious side to it as well,” Fiske said Monday, noting that Murray, at 5-foot-11 and about 190 pounds, is much larger than she is.

During the ride to the East Millinocket Police Department, Fiske alleged, Murray touched her and tried to grab for the steering wheel, forcing her to subdue him with a few sharp smacks.

Murray was placed in leg restraints and another trooper came along in the cruiser as the suspect was transported to the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor.